🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 29, 2016 02:43 PM UTC:
You're often unclear in expressing yourself. But now that you have
explained your concerns, they can be addressed.
> The issues that I know of are that duplication takes up more space,
The hosting account for this website allows for unlimited storage space,
and even a few hundred text files do not take up that much space.
> is more susceptible to errors such as typos,
If you use the code automatically generated by the Diagram Designer, that
will not be a problem. And it is easy enough to spot typos in the URLs to
images. You just have to load the page and check whether the image shows
up.
> and makes extra work if a sudden change is made.
A sudden change was made recently, and it was taken care of without
changing the image URLs. That change was to start using
play.chessvariants.com semantic URLs for user-submitted Game Courier
presets. This broke all the relative image links in these files, and it was
handled by creating a pseudo membergraphics directory in the play subdomain
with an .htaccess file redirecting to the one in the main domain.
If a change happened that did require editing the files, duplicate code
would make it easy enough to fix it with a search and replace. So, even in
that circumstance, duplicate code is not going to make that much extra
work.
> If my idea really is impossible, say so and I will live with it
Impossible is not the only reason things don't get done. I am not in
support of your idea, and I have more important things to do than work on
this.
